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- From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
- Subject: Re: Branding kids, IQ tests, smart vs dumb (Was: Re: Seminar Program)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan19.181138.13404@aoa.aoa.utc.com>
- Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
- References: <1993Jan17.192113.26691@sequent.com> <1993Jan18.152035.10261@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <76945@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 18:11:38 GMT
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- In article <76945@apple.apple.COM> billc@Apple.COM (Bill Cockayne) writes:
- >the moral...standardized tests do NOT indicate intelligence. they indicate
- >SAT test taking ability. (ps - has anyone ever scored a SAT when the answers
- >are chosen by making patterns? you can get a pretty good score.)
- x
- First of all, "indicate" doesn't have much if any meaning in the science
- of statistics (or demographics). As several have already pointed out,
- your personal correlation or lack thereof between SAT score and
- college performance means nothing.
- Not to mention that people who get straight A's at some comunity
- college would get destroyed at CalTech: not all colleges have the same
- standards.
- As to the notion of "hard work": there's a big difference between
- difficult or challenging work and long, tedious, repetitive work.
- Both have their place. Try being good at basketball or solving
- integrals (or the violin) without both types of hard work.
-
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